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grouping
CIDE DICTIONARY
grouping, n.
The disposal or relative arrangement of figures or objects, as in, drawing, painting, and sculpture, or in ornamental design. [1913 Webster]
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grouping
Bund, Rochdale cooperative, age group, alliance, analysis, appraisal, arrangement, assemblage, assessment, association, assortment, atmosphere, axis, balance, band, batch, battalion, bevy, bloc, blood, body, bracket, branch, brigade, brushwork, bunch, cabal, cast, caste, cataloging, categorization, category, clan, class, classification, clique, clump, cluster, coalition, codification, cohort, college, color, combination, combine, common market, company, complement, composition, confederacy, confederation, consumer cooperative, contingent, cooperative, cooperative society, copse, corps, coterie, council, covey, credit union, crew, crop, crowd, culling, customs union, design, detachment, detail, division, draftsmanship, economic community, estate, evaluation, faction, factoring, federation, filing, fleet, free trade area, gang, gauging, gradation, grade, grading, group, groupment, grove, hassock, head, heading, identification, in-group, indexing, junta, kin, knot, label, league, level, line, lot, machine, mess, mob, movement, order, out-group, outfit, pack, painterliness, partnership, party, peer group, perspective, phalanx, pigeonhole, pigeonholing, placement, platoon, political machine, position, posse, predicament, race, ranging, rank, ranking, rating, regiment, ring, rubric, salon, screening, section, selection, sept, set, shading, shadow, shock, sifting, sifting out, slew, society, sorting, sorting out, squad, stable, station, status, stook, strain, stratification, stratum, string, subdivision, subgroup, suborder, subordination, tabulation, taxonomy, team, technique, thicket, tier, title, tone, treatment, triage, tribe, troop, troupe, tuft, tussock, typology, union, values, weighing, wing, winnowing, wispROGET THESAURUS
grouping
Arrangement
N arrangement, plan, preparation, disposal, disposition, collocation, allocation, distribution, sorting, assortment, allotment, apportionment, taxis, taxonomy, syntaxis, graduation, organization, grouping, tabulation, analysis, classification, clustering, division, digestion, digest, synopsis, syntagma, table, atlas, file, database, register, organism, architecture, sieve, riddle, screen, sorter, arranged, embattled, in battle array, cut and dried, methodical, orderly, regular, systematic, In vast cumbrous array.For further exploring for "grouping" in Webster Dictionary Online